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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-03

MAP OF HARPER'S FERRY.
Gen. Julius White was at Martinsburg,
Va, Federal outpost some miles away,
with 2 500 men
Military critics from the safe distance bots
OF time and space say now that when news
camc that Lees whole army was in that
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-03
ANTIETAM. OR sHARPseuRe,

During the night Of Sept. IA, after the
fights on South Mountain, the Confederate
commands of Longstreet and D. b. Hill
withdrew to Sharpsburg, thus edging away
from McClellan's army and nearer the
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ST. LOUIS, NO., Nov. 2, 1851.
CATTLE-Receipts, $500 head: market SLOW
and dull.
HoGs-Receipts, 5000 head: market shade
lower; choice heavy Gnd butchers, Sz.45a3466s
packing and Workers, e4.1594.45; pigs, "a. 100
40.
sHEEP-Receipts, 1,0oo head; market lrm.
WHEAT-Easy: No. red cash, 71xDfzkc;
November, 715zc; December, IKE; May, e6a<.
CORN-Firm; cash ,39c: November, 3eEcs
o1Ts.steady; Icash. SiSessc: November.
24xc; May, 25xc.
PORK-Etandard mess, $3.50.
IARD-t6, 20.
WHIsKY-Steatiy; HOS.
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SLEPT WITH THE HOG.

A noted temperance lecturer told this
anecdote of himself while he was in
the service of the despot: IT was getting
precious fond Of my cups; my wife had
taken to tears; my children hid them
selves at my approach; my bread was often
scant and sometimes lacking altogether
l paid no heed to these signals Of danger,
but went on from bad to worse. Every
evening 1 was down town, drinking,
laughing, playing cards, hooting and
carousing, and | returned reeling and
stumbling, getting to bed as best I might,
either with or without my wife's help as
the mood seized me. Sometimes I got
clever rum and other times ugly rum.
When entered my own house where I
was lord paramount, acted out Just the
kind had imbibed.
Gone night it was dark and rainy. I
stayed longer than usual, for Mansfield
had tapped brand new cask OF Jamaica
and we boys we're having regular blow
out to celebrate the event. I felt very
clever and foolish, and got home and
nicely in bed without word from my
wife or babies. I remember cuddling
down very close for was wet and chilly.
and also Of vaihly trying to find the
Counterpart. Then I slept as only a
drunken man does without sense or mo-
ton, for hours. Suddenly, was rudely
awakened by kick, grunt, push-I
looked about me. For some moments my
brain refused to comprehend my where
abouts. l am even now ashamed to tell
what l saw when my scattered wits re-
turned. First, wept tears of shame and
dismay; then, through all my shame I
laughed as you will, when I tell you 1
was not in bed with my wife, but one
more nearly my equal-my neighbours
old SOW. Yes, boys, had got drunk and
crawled into the hog pen, the only place
1 then and there acknowledged mean
enough for drunken man to lie in.
When got out of that 1 determined new
or to fit myself to go in again. From that
hour Of humiliation 1 have been a sober
man, and God helping me / will be SO
eyermore,"
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FRENCH PEASANTS AND WAR.

FRENCH PEASANTS AND WAR.
An English lady, resident in the south
of France, writes:
at is not to the peasants that it is need
full to preach peace. They detest war.
To them it comes as dreadful enemy
who seizes their young men just at an
age when their fathers want them, and
takes them away for shorter or longer
period, during which they may be sent to
Tonquin or Madagascar. One fact OF
the last election will give You an idea of
the feeling. In one district, last election,
the vote had been solidly republican;
this time it was entirely the other way,
and the simple explanation was that a
young man, we'll known in that village,
had been killed in Tonquin. OF course
it was the fault of the government for
against it. You can't have an idea in
England what the feeling is in this coun-
try. I have never begun the subject yet
without receiving prompt sympathy. L
have seen a father knit his brows and
grind his teeth as he spoke of the Jesuits,
who always foment wars. I know poor
pastor who has three boys just sufficient
ly removed in age not to exempt one an
other, and with the prospect that the ex-
pected new law will take each three years
without exemption. Is it needful to
preach peace to the parents OF such chill
dren? I wonder the parents don't emil
CRATE; but they see no hope, and the lads
see no hope. And just when our English
young men are thinking of making some
decision as to their future life, the French
lad puts off all serious consideration till
he knows what his fate will be. 1t is the
saddest sight to see the 'conscripts,' pre-
tending to rejoice, promenading the vii
lage with banner and big drum,
making pretense 10 be merry with an
aching, trembling heart. When we see
the soldiers, it is pitiful to think how
they are longing for their spades and
ploughs. Last year, owing to the search
ty of laborers, furloughs were freely
granted to the soldiers to go home and
help with the harvest. They came home
so ioyously. Poor fellows, they suffer
much during the annual exercises, as
their food is scant at best. Miss N.
found enc almost crying in shop be-
cause he had not two sous to buy bit
of cheese with; he had ordered it and
then found he had not enough to pay for
it. Miss NJ. learned he was the eldest of
nine, and his father just dead, too lately
for him to get excused the annual exer-
cises. Mol it is not the soldiers nor their
parents who love war; they only don't
know how to escape from its clutches"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-03-05
WESTINGHOUSE LAST VISIT TO
VALLEY FORGE.

George Washington's last visit to VAL
ley Forge, when he was about to retire to
private life at the end of his second Pres
idential term, was described by an old
farmer, once Revolutionary soldier, to
his son, who made a record of that de-
scription. The farmer was ploughing in
field near the old encampment ground,
when he observed man of dignified ap-
pearance, dressed in plain black suit,
and followed by a colored servant, ride
up the road and dismount near. He ap-
preached and cordially took the farmers
hand, making inquiries about certain
families in the neighborhood, about the
surrounding farms, their productions and
the system of cultivation. He put the
answers into note book and told the
farmer that he had been in the army and
at the camp, and as he expected to leave
the city in few months, with the pros
pect Of never returning, he had taken this
journey to visit the place which had been
the scene of so much suffering and dis
tress and see how far the inhabitants had
recovered from its effects. And adding
that his name was George Washington,
he declared that to see the people happy
and the farms prospecting, and to meet
with his old companions, now peaceably
engaged in the most useful of all employ
ments, afforded him more satisfaction
than all the homage that could be paid
to his person or station.
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VICTIMS AND vIcTIMIzERs.


think we cannot too sharply draw the
line between what is really our duty, and
what other people choose to suppose it is,
probably each person has differ
emf opinion on the subject. We are apt
to start in life with grand idea of self
sacrifice, and heroic sense OF the joy of
it. Ay! and there is joy, deeper than
the selfish can ever understand, delight
keener than the pleasure loving can
ever KNOWN spending and being spent
for our best-beloved, or even in the mere
abstract help of the good and defence of
the miserable,-that enthusiasm of hu-
manity" as great writer called it, which
is at the heart of all religion, the love Of
man springing from the love of God.
Yet, alas! ere long we come to fear that
there are sacrifices which turn out to be
sheer mistakes, running ourselves and
profting nobody; that unselfshness car
ried to an extreme only makes other peo-
pie selfish; that "the fear of man bringeth
snare;" and that to embitter ones whole
life through weak dread of offending
this person who has no right to be Of
Tended, or of not doing ones duty to that
person who has the very smallest claim
to any duty at all, is-well / will not call
it wrong, because it is failing that leans
to virtues side; but it is-simply silly.
TO Withstand evil is as necessary as to
do good. And if we Withstand it for 9TH
ers, why not Withstand it for ourselves?
Every time that we weakly suffer a need
less wrong, We abet and encourage the
inflictor in perpetrating it. By becom-
ing passive and accomplishing victims,
we tacitly injure the victimizers. They
can but kill our bodies, AS they some
times do by most amiable and unconscious
murder, slow and sure,-but we may kill
their souls by allowing them, unresisted,
to go on in some course of conduct which
must result in their gradual deterioration
and moral death. 1t may be theory
startling enough to some people, but war
ranted by good long observation of life,
if say that one-half of the selt-sacri-
fees OF this world-the endless instances
in which we see the good are inundated
to the bad, the weak to the strong, the
self-forgetting to the exacting and tyran-
nieal-spring not from heroism, but COW
ardice.
We have too many angels in this world,
and we know little enough of the angelic
host above; but the angel who always
most attracted my youthful imagination
was st. Michael, the strong, the warlike,
the wrestler with the powers of evil. That
we should SO wrestle with the evil, even
to our last breath, is as necessary as that
we should cling to good; and, lovely as
love may be, there is another, blindfold
woman with balance and scales, still more
beautiful. Justice is great deal more
difficult to find than mercy, and rarer.
Aud justice would say to these victims,
hopeless victims many, for they are not
only too weak to struggle against, but
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But he could obtain no introduction.
She was SO near and yet so far.
Going home one night from duties that
had occupied him for nearly eight-and-
forty hours, with little time for sleep, he
heard the startling shout Of fire. He
followed the mob and the rafting, ill-con-
trived engine down the narrow, dark
street that, from the showers of sparks
and the smoke and heat, seemed on fire
from end to end.
Wilhelm got close to the burning
building and helped to work the engine.
But there was soon other and Drawer
work for him to tackle. For lookl the
faces of young people and children,
frantic with fear, appear at the upper
window. Who will climb through sparks
and smoke up the rickety ladder? Who
will volunteer to save them? Wilhelm
will He springs toward it; up end down,
and up and down, and he has saved three.
He is scorched and burned, but seems to
bear charmed life. The last he saves,
to his surprise, if not joy, is the young
singer. While she is borne away in safety
be faints and falls.
It is some two days before he comes to
his senses at his hotel. 1t would be weeks
before he got around What mattered it?
She came daily to see and inquire after
his welfare:
Ali it was the old, old story. But he
did not fell it then or there. He told the
young singer a story of different kind;
of a lovely little cottage among the pine
woods OF Surrey, and of an old man who
was dying of sorrow because his daugh-
ter would never colLe again. And the
girl bent her head and sobbed, and those
tears told Wilhelm all.
There was joy in the Surrey cottage
when Marie returned. With her came
the sunshine-sunshine to bird and flow
er and tree, and sunshine to old Albano's
heart.
There is large house now among the
pines near the little cottage. Wilhelm is
its wealthy owner. Marie is its mistress.
And long indeed they would think that
day that did not bring them visit from
father Albano.
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THE LARGEST FARM IN THE
WORLD,

In the extreme southwest corner of
Louisiana lies the largest producing
farm in the world. 1t runs 100 miles
north and south and twenty-five miles
east and west, and is owned and operated
by syndicate of Northern capitalists.
Their general manager, j. B. Watkins,
gives an interesting account of this
gigantic plantation, which throws the
great Dalrymple farm in Dakota into
the shade completely. The million and
half acres of our tract" Mr.. Watkins
said, "was purchased in 1888 from the
State of Louisiana and from the United
States government. At that time it was
a vast grazing land for the cattle of
few dealers Of the neighborhood. When
took possession l found over thirty
thousand head of half-wild horses and
cattle. My work was to divide the i'm
mense tract into convenient pastures,
establishing stations or ranches every six
miles. The fencing alone cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The land 1
found to be best adapted to rice, sugar,
corn and cotton. All our cultivating,
ditehing, ETC., are done by steam pow
or. We take a tract, say half a mile
wide, for instance, and place an en-
CINE on each side. These engines are
portable, and operate a cable attached to
four plows, and under this arrangement
we are able to pillow thirty acres day
with the labor of only three men. Our har-
rowing, planting and other cultivation are
done in like manner. In fact, there is
not a single draught horse on the entire
place. We have, of course, horses for the
herders of cattle, of which we have now
10000 head. The Southern Pacific Rail-
road runs for thirty-six miles through
our farm. We have three steamboats,,
operating on the waters of our own
estate, upon which there are 300 miles of
navigable waters We have an ice house,
bank, sbipyard and rice mill. MS
souri, Republican.
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TEMPERANCE AND CHOLERA Temper
ance finds a strong argument in the re-
port of DR.. Brouradel to the French Acad-
envy of Science on the cholera in Mar
settles. at strikes, as it always Does"
he says, "the feeble, the alcobolized, and
the wretched before it touches others"
COMPRESSED AIR.-The Weekly Medi-
cal Reviet1 says that SIT would require
long array Of cases, associated with Sc
we're demonstrations, to convince us that
any simple pneumatic pressure applied
to the mouth and nose, would favor
ably compare with an exhilRrating bug
gy ride, facing a gentle and refreshing
breeze"
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they actually love their victimizers,-
"Pause and consider whether there is not
something beyond either love or hatred,
that sense of simple right and wrong,
which, when not corrupted or set aside,
is inherent in every human soul. Fear
God and have no other fear; serve God
and every other service will sink into its
right proportions. For one is your Mas
ter, even Christ; and all ye are brethren -;
and, if we really are brethren, let us try
to be neither victims nor victimizers-
Miss Muloch.
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"AUF WIEDERSEHN".

One gain have as years go by
And dim remembered joy and PAIN
Love slowly turns from memory
To feed itself with hope again.
AS friends who come across the sea,
And as they near the hither shore
Think of the land that is to be,
And of the land they left, no more,
So forget the parting grief
Nor count the distance drear and wide,
But find a new and strange relief
In that sweet thought, beyond the tide.
AS suns that sink from fading skies,
Quenched in dark and stormy main,
Across the world with morning rise,
And flood the air with light again.
So dawns the joy lost erewhile,
Set not for aye, but for a night;
A far-of future keeps its smile
And brghtens with it's rising light.
From sun to sun my journey lies;
fee the night, l seek the day.
From love to love my swift bark flies,
Why should grieve along the way?
So slips from life its dirge of woe;
Lost in new. melodious strain,
That in my heart sings sweet and low,
eve meet again,-we meet again."
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Richmond, III

The Chicago Mail observes: The
last words OF John M. Wilson, hanged for
murder at Philadelphia the other day, are
about as good temperance lecture as
any that has been recently uttered. His
remark was: When my strangled body
hangs between heaven and earth, may
all who look upon it imagine they hear
me say: This is the work of rum"
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household ftints.
BREAKFAST DISHES.

If any meal of the three should be pre-
pared with special care it is the first meal
of the day. The majority of people have
little or no appetite in the morning, and
unless the dishes set before them are ex-
ceedingly palatable, partake too sparingly
of food.
Healthy men and women who have a
hard days work to undergo need more
than boiled egg, bit of toast and
cup of coffee. He or she who breakfasts
heartily is well armed for life's daily
round of laLor.
In large family the variety of tastes
is frequently trying to housekeeper
who desires to please all, but there is
doubtless a multiplicity of dishes at her
command. Oatmeal, which has rapidly
been growing in favor the past few years,
now divides the honors with toast, grid
e-cakes, gems, johnny. cake and mullins.
Veal outlets, mutton-chops, liver and ba-
con, sausage and the inevitable beefsteak
present an appetizing variety of break
fast meats, easily supplemented with po-
tatoes, baked, boiled or fried.
Oatmeal Mush.- One cup of oatmeal,
one teaspoonful of salt to quart OF boil
ing water. Boil rapidly twelve minutes,
stirring with large spoon. Place dish
containing it over hot water, cook slowly
one hour. Oatmeal may be eaten with
fruit or sugar and cream.
Butter Toast. Brown the bread evenly,
butter the toast, serve hot.
Water Toast.-Dip the slices of toast
into pan of boiling water. Do not let
them soak, but as rapidly as possible
place on hot plate, butter and serve.
Milk Toast.-Scald milk, to one pint
add tablespoonful of butter; when boil
ing pour over and between slices of toast
which should have previously been placed
in a deep dish.
Griddle Cakes,-1 pint of -four, 4 tea
spoonful of salt, l teaspoonful soda,
pint sour milk, 2 eggs thoroughly beaten.
Bake on hot griddle.
GEM pint water, pint milk, u tea.
spoonful of salt, cups of flour. Beat
rapidly, and when gem irons are Kissing
hot and buttered, fill and bake in hot
oven.
JohnnyCake. -4 cup -four "a cup
cornmesl, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, q ia
blespoonful salt, 2 eggs, whites and yolks
beaten separately. Mix first, -four, bak-
ing powder and salt, then add milk and
butter, yolk of eggs, and last of all the,
whites whipped to a froth.
Veal Outlets Dreaded Sprinkle outlet
with salt and pepper. Roll in fine crumbs,
dip in egg, then again in crumbs. Fry
slices of fat pork, and in the pork fat fry
the outlets. To make brown gravy add
to fat remaining in pan two tablespoon
fuls of flour, over which pour slowly
cup Of water.
Mutton Chops.-Fry in kissing hot pan
without extra fat. Turn frequently until
done. Sprinkle with salt.
Liver and Bacon.-Cut liver into slices
removing thin skin and veins. Season
and fry with bacon, serving with brown
gravy.
Sausage.-Fry to an even brown, but
do not dry. To serve with them fry ap-
pies in the hot fat. Aasas
Baked Potatoes.-For 6akRng, select
potatoes of uniform size. Cleanse them
thoroughly, bake until soft.
Fried Raw Potatoes.-Pare and cut into
thin slices, and fry quickly in lard or
clear fat.-R. II. Sterling.
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The 4tunae Circle.
RICHEST GIFTS.

Richest gifts are those we make,
Dearer than the love we take
That we give for loves own sake.
Hands that ope but to receive
Empty close; they only live
Richly who can richly give.
He who, giving, does not crave,
Likest is to Him who gave
Life itself the loved to save.
Love that elf-forgetful gives
Sows surprise of ripened sheaves.
Late or soon its own receives.
john Grsenleaf Whittier.
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cURIOsITIEs OF THE VOICE.

DIR. De]aunay, i'll a paper read before
the French Academy of Medicine, gives
some details of the history and limits Of
the human voice, which he obtained after
much patient research. According to the
doctor, the primitive inhabitants of Eu
rope were all tenors; their descendants Of
the present day are baritones, and theil
grandsons will have semi-bass voices
Looking at different races, he calls atten.
ton to the fact that inferior races, such
as negroes, ETC., have higher voices than
white men. The voice has also tenden.
cy to deepen with age-the tenor of six.
teen becoming the baritone of twenty
five, and bass at thirty-five. Fair. com
plexioned people have higher voices than
the dark. skinned, the former being usu.
ally sopranos or tenors, and the latter
contraltos or bassos. Tenors, says the
doctor, are slenderly built, and thin
bassos are stoutly made, and corpulent
This may be SO, as rule, but one is in.
clined to think there are more exceptions
to it than are necessary to prove the rule
The same remark applies to the assertion
that thoughtful, intelligent men have al
ways deep toned voice; whereas trihers
and frivolous persons have soft, weak
voices. The voice is perceptibly higher
he says, before than after a meal
which is the reason why tenors dine
early, in order that the voice may moi
suffer. It is almost superauous for him
to remind his learned audience that
singers who were prudent eschewed
strong drinks and spirituous liquors, es.
pecially tenors; for the bassos generally
eat and drink with impunity. The South,
says the doctor, furnishes the tenors; the
North the bassos; in proof Of which he
adds that the majority of the French
tenors in vogue come from the South OF
France, while the basso's belong to the
northern department.-N. Y. Voice.
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ave may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live
without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live
without books,
But civilized men can not live without
cooks.
Gle may live without books-what is knowl-
edge but grieving?
He may live without hope-what is hope
but deceiving?
He may live without love-what is passion
but pining?
But where is the man that can live without
dining?"
The Good Housekeeper.
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HOW TO MAKE HOME AT
TRACTIVE,

This question considered spiritually
the real attractiveness might be in the
inmates of the home and not their sur
roundings. Contentment, love and char
ity for the shortcomings of others, and a
spirit that makes the best of things, add
much to the attractiveness of the homes
of either rich or poor. But home to be
attractive in ali respects to the cultured
and refined, think should be pleasantly
situated, cheerful and convenient in con-
struction, tastefully furnished, brightness
and warmth of color without gaudiness,
open fires, pictures and engravings well
selected, growing plants, and library of
we'll chosen books. Cleanliness and
order should exist without business.
Each member of the family should have
a certain freedom, yet not conflict with
each other. Harmony should reign
supreme. Servants should be obedient,
truthful and honest. And last, but not
least, good cook is great essential.
LUCILLE" By Queen Meredith.
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Lift up heart of hope, my daughterl Thou
hast sorrowed without sinl
Ope thy spirits darkened window, that the
sunshine may come inl
Never burden made so heavy but the dear
lords gentle hand
Will assist His child to bear it; and beside her
he will stand,
While she breasts the sorrOw-tempest; and the
same dear hand shall guide,
When her feet attempt the waters of the an
CRY, swollen tidel
And remember. daughter, ever. like mantle
from above,
Shall enfold your wounded spirit the poor
blessing of my Lowell
1t all this heart can give thee; but, who Civ
eth all gives more
Than the splendor of abundance from scarce
diminished store.
Richmond, III.